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Do you know of Oakdale Station ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Oakdale Station. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Oakdale Station.

Our sources for Oakdale Station (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Oakdale Station other than they indicate that Oakdale Station would be found somewhere in Suffolk County, New York.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1868 and closed  in 1946.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Oakdale Station ...

We found one communities that share the name Oakdale Station.

Within New York, the name Oakdale Station is unique.

Beyond New York, there is another community also named Oakdale Station in the United States.

  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Pennsylvania
      • Allegheny County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Oakdale Station [Allegheny County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Oakdale Station ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Oakdale Station:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Oakdale Station - Services available: had a Post Office, Railroad Station, Express Office

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Rand McNally Map of New York (1897)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

More Orphans in  Suffolk County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Suffolk County.

AtlanticvilleNassau Point
 Newsday
Baiting Hollow StationNorth Shore Beach
Bergen ParkNorth Smithtown
Bresleau 
Brookville ParkOld Field South
 Olympic
Calverton - RoanokeOregon
Cold Spring Terrace 
Colonial SpringsPenataquit
Cutchogue - New SuffolkPinelawn
 Plum Island
Denton HillsPromised Land
Dunewood 
 Remsenburg - Speonk
East Half Hollow HillsRepublic
East Hampton NorthRiverside - Flanders
East HuntingtonRobins Island
East Lake RonkonkomaRonkonkoma West
East Neck 
EchoSaint James Heights
EdgewoodSaint Johnland
Elwood FarmsSantapoque
 Saxon Park
ForgeSeatuck
Fresh PondSetauket - East Setauket
 Shorewood
Gardiners IslandSmithtown Branch
Good GroundSmithtown Pines
Greenport WestSouth Holbrook
 South Stony Brook
Half Hollow HillsThe Springs
Harbor Heights Park 
Heatherwood NorthTiana Shores
Heatherwood South 
Holbrook - HoltsvilleWaterside Park
 Waverly
Jersey ColonyWest Brentwood
 West Huntington
Lake PanamokaWest Mecox
Lake Ronkonkoma HeightsWest Ronkonkoma
 West Saint James
Madison ParkWest Smithtown
Manor StationWest Yaphank
Miller's PlaceWickman Park
 Wildwood Lake

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Oakdale Station could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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